Seems like the NFL learned nothing from the RR investigation.. GJGE NFL
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Giants were unaware of Josh Brown’s admission of physical and emotional abuse wp.me/p14QSB-a9jI
10/20/16, 10:42 AM
There was a story about the wife being moved into an undisclosed hotel at the Pro Bowl because he was terrorizing her. Neither the Giants or NFL knew about that?
I hope this can be tied back to Goodell in some way.NFL is getting pummeled for this, fantastic
The plane is still on the tarmac...scheduled for 5 pm departure to London.As they said on Mike and Mike this morning, he shouldn't have gotten on the plane to London.
Imagine if there was an audio recording of an NFL admin assistant admitting to having received and read the letter from Brown.I hope this can be tied back to Goodell in some way.
He is already there isnt he?Brown does not make London trip.
There was a story about the wife being moved into an undisclosed hotel at the Pro Bowl because he was terrorizing her. Neither the Giants or NFL knew about that?
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/20/nfl-security-moved-josh-browns-ex-wife-to-new-hotel-room-at-the-pro-bowl/related/The NFL and the Giants both said that they had no knowledge of the information included in the release of new documents by the King County, Washington Sheriff regarding Giants kicker Josh Brown’s history of domestic violence, but it appears that’s not quite true.
One of the pieces of information included in those documents, as reported by Ralph Vacchiano of SNY.tv, involved NFL security moving Brown’s ex-wife Molly from her hotel room at the 2016 Pro Bowl after an incident with the kicker. Per Molly Brown, she took the trip with her sons and the daughter she had with Brown while the couple was in the process of getting a divorce at her ex-husband’s request.
Once there, she said she was subjected to “cutting comments” and had her phone taken by Brown so he could search her texts before pounding on her door (they had separate rooms) while drunk until NFL and hotel security intervened. She said NFL security eventually moved her to a new room on the Friday night before the game, something that Albert Breer of TheMMQB.com confirmed with the league, and the family had no further incidents over the course of the weekend.
That information raises further questions about why the league cited “insufficient information” about the issues between Brown and his ex-wife when they opted to suspend Brown for one game earlier this year.
It pays to be a friend of Roger. The Mara's get the commissioner's discount.The craziest part of this is they came up with a new mandatory six game punishment for domestic abuse and then suspended him one game for "lack of evidence." Leaving aside the really clear evidence he was abusive, where does a one game suspension come from? Either he's guilty or not. Six games or none.
Didn't they used to say the same thing about the Krafts?It pays to be a friend of Roger. The Mara's get the commissioner's discount.
Them there's crazy talk.I really hope the racial component to this becomes a thing (rightly or wrongly). It does not look good when black guys are banned for half seasons and blackballed from the league, and the white placekicker gets a game and a "we were comfortable with our decision". And, please God, show that Goodell knew of this stuff and have this come down on him. I think I would actually take a Goodell resignation and humiliation over #5 for TB12 at this point.
Especially because #5 is humiliation for Goodell.Them there's crazy talk.
One-on-one, Roger typically goes along with whatever the particular owner wants. The problem for Kraft was all the owners who wanted the Pats to get walloped, plus the pro-Jets elements of NFL HQ.Didn't they used to say the same thing about the Krafts?
Maybe he just shook a bitch?If you didn't see the hit, you must acquit.
And Roger needed to dispel the growing view of Kraft as "Co-Commissioner" that was going around.One-on-one, Roger typically goes along with whatever the particular owner wants. The problem for Kraft was all the owners who wanted the Pats to get walloped, plus the pro-Jets elements of NFL HQ.
Not traveling.He is already there isnt he?
"Paging Giants fan Lisa Friel, Paging Giants fan Lisa Friel. Please report to the firing line."
#scapegoatneededstat
Well, it's not as though they had a spare $20M around to spend on the investigationThere was damning abuse evidence in a public document in Brown's divorce. Some job the NFL and the Giants did in "investigating". What a complete joke.
Don't worry, by the time the last BA flight leaves NY for London tonight Ted Wells will have done an 'independent investigation' that demosntrates Brown is actually innocent. Problem solved!There was damning abuse evidence in a public document in Brown's divorce. Some job the NFL and the Giants did in "investigating". What a complete joke.
http://deadspin.com/the-nfl-always-had-access-to-the-josh-brown-documents-1788037941
The NFL blasted the King County Sheriff’s Office for its handling of a domestic violence case against former Seahawk Josh Brown. But Sheriff John Urquhart fired back on Thursday, saying the NFL failed to go through the proper channels, and further, the NFL is being “bully.”
“I don’t like to get pushed around by a bully,” Urquhart told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson.
The NFL announced Thursday that it would re-open its investigation of New York Giants placekicker Josh Brown after police released journal entries and emails in which he admitted that he verbally and physically abused his ex-wife. A misdemeanor domestic violence charge was dropped within days of Brown’s arrest in Woodinville last May. The Sheriff’s Office, though, has now released more than 150 pages of documents that show the woman accused Brown of abusing her more than 20 times.
The NFL was blasted for only giving Brown a one-game suspension when it promised to do more to fight domestic violence. The league says it now plans to review this new information and will decide any next steps it will take.
In a press release, the league claimed it tried repeatedly to get information about domestic violence allegations against Brown, but that the Sheriff’s Office denied them.
@RedOctober3829Urquhart explained why he was not pleased with the NFL “taking shots” and “lashing out” at his office. He said that four days after Brown was involved in an alleged domestic violence incident on May 22, 2015, a man named Rob Agnew submitted a public disclosure request with a generic Comcast email address.
“Nowhere on the request does he say that he works for the NFL and so, we don’t know that it’s the NFL and we’re not gonna give it out anyway, so we denied it,” Urquhart said.
“’NFL, National Football League,’he could have (said) any of that,” Urquhart said. “Robert Agnew, Comcast.net, post office box in Woodinville. We had no idea who this yokel is.”
Sheriff Urquhart said Agnew submitted another unaffiliated request on Oct. 7, which was again denied.
“To our discredit, perhaps, we didn’t use the Google, to Google this guy’s name,” Urquhart said. “Turns out that he is a security representative based in Seattle for the NFL.”
“But he never told us that,” he said. “The NFL never told us that. At no time has the NFL ever filed a written public disclosure request for any of these files. Period. It’s never happened.”
Sheriff John Urquhart said his office received several phone calls from a woman who identified herself as security for the NFL, but that she received the same answer — it was an open investigation. Same went for a Seattle police officer who claimed to work for the NFL. Urquhart said if the league had gone through proper public disclosure channels, the request would have gone straight to Urquhart, who would have been able to help out more.
If you read more of the backstory from the Deadspin author, it's pretty clear that NFL Security is populated by a bunch of guffoons.
I understand that the NFL is full of incompetent people, but I'm a little confused why this Sherrif Urquhart is making a big deal about NFL investigators not identifying themselves when at the same time he says he wouldn't give it to them anyway.Holy crap is the NFL incompetent
http://mynorthwest.com/430607/john-urquhart-fires-back-at-nfl/
@RedOctober3829
Much more at the link
GJGE NFL, who the fuck is running security at your place?
Those who are hoping that Goodell is going to be hurt by this need to accept that he'll emerge largely unscathed. Mara's comments above - especially the second one, where he admits that they knew about the abuse but not "the extent of that" - means that he's going to be the fall guy here. (I can almost see Goodell at the podium claiming that Mara did not share his knowledge with NFL security ...)http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/10/20/nfl-security-moved-josh-browns-ex-wife-to-new-hotel-room-at-the-pro-bowl/related/
AlbertBreer
(2/2) The league says Josh Brown tried to get to Molly, and Molly called security, and was moved, and that was the end of it.
10/20/16, 2:02 PM
"and that was the end of it"..
GJGE NFL.... Bang up job you did
AlbertBreer
Giants owner John Mara on Josh Brown: "He admitted to us he'd abused his wife in the past. What's a little unclear is the extent of that."
10/20/16, 2:30 PM
This is a joke....
Curran article from yesterday. Great stuffTom E. Curran has to be, just has to be the best local sports media member going now... Thoughtful, detailed, and curious:
http://media.weei.com/a/117155297/mut-curran-on-the-seemingly-mishandled-josh-gordon-domestic-abuse-investigation.htm#cxrecs_s